Gamebryo Helps Bring a South American Phenomenon, Chiquititas, to Wii(TM)

Market Wire, February, 2008

Viva Wii! Emergent Game Technologies today announced Biodroid Productions will use Gamebryo to bring South America's incredibly popular and most-beloved brand, Chiquititas, to Wii(TM) fans worldwide. Known in English as Tiny Angels, Chiquititas began as a television series in Argentina and quickly inspired the creation of branded apparel, a magazine, several soundtrack albums, and a Broadway-style musical. A feature film based on the characters is scheduled for release later this year.

Being chosen as the video game development platform responsible for bringing this celebrated South American brand to Wii is another example of Emergent's worldwide service philosophy and global expansion.

Gamebryo gives Biodroid developers a considerable head start by implementing numerous Wii development features that do not typically come with standard SDKs. Loaded with rendering and animation tools, a Wii-specific viewer, extensive libraries and APIs to simplify pipeline integration, Gamebryo provides Wii teams everything they need to optimize and deliver visually stunning games on time and on budget.

"The strength and diversity of the Chiquititas brand is a natural fit for Wii. Fans of action adventure are certain to embrace this future addition to the Chiquititas universe," said Bruno Patatas, Co-Founder of, Biodroid Productions. "Gamebryo is allowing us to do things beyond what we could have imagined."

"Developing Chiquititas into a video game is a perfect example of why we created Gamebryo for the Wii. This exceptional brand has endless possibilities and building it on Gamebryo leaves the future open for continued evolution of the title," said Geoffrey Selzer, CEO of Emergent. "Gamebryo's Wii optimization enables Biodroid to focus on custom features, content and gameplay to make Chiquititas a truly unique Wii title. The flexibility of Gamebryo across genres and art styles truly highlights what we can do -- from RPGs to FPRs and from photo-real to toon-shaded games -- we facilitate everything a developer is looking for."

Chiquititas for Wii will be a third-person platform jumper with action and puzzle elements. The game, centered on a wonderful lead character that runs a home for orphans, will incorporate the optimistic plotline, lively music and colorful video from the original television series.

About Gamebryo

Gamebryo has been fully optimized for development on Wii(TM), PLAYSTATION3, Xbox 360(TM), and PC. It is the engine used in Bethesda Softworks' record-breaking Xbox 360(TM), PLAYSTATION3 and PC title, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and on its upcoming Fallout 3 across the same platforms. Gamebryo is also being used by EA-Mythic on its upcoming Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Gamebryo is a mature software product that ships with 3,500 pages of fully indexed, searchable documentation. To date, Gamebryo has been used in more than 200 games titles ranging from massively multiplayer online games, high-end retail games across multiple genres, and casual games.

About Emergent

Emergent Game Technologies provides flexible technologies and services that give developers an unmatched range of integrated capabilities for building, testing and managing games. These proven, stand-alone solutions include the award-winning Gamebryo game engine used to create hit next-generation games for the Wii(TM), PLAYSTATION3, Xbox 360(TM), and PC. Emergent technology gives developers the flexibility they need to fuel creativity while reducing risk.

Emergent is headquartered in Calabasas, Calif., and has offices in Chapel Hill, NC; Austin, Texas; London; Tokyo; China; and Korea. To learn more, visit www.emergent.net .

About Biodroid Productions

Founded in 2007, Biodroid is focused on managing, producing and distributing IP-based products. Based in Lisbon, Portugal, Biodroid brings together a group of professionals with a wide range of backgrounds, including telecommunications, television, animation and game development. For more info, visit www.biodroid-entertainment.com .

"Wii(TM)" is a trademark of Nintendo. "PLAYSTATION" is a registered trademark and "PS3" and "Cell Broadband Engine" are trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. "Xbox 360" is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

Contact: Susan Kramer Double Forte for Emergent Game Technologies (415) 848-8113 Email Contact